Police Re-Arrest Man who Set Boy Ablaze

February 9, 2019

DSP-Samuel-Punobyin

The Bolgatanga Municipal
Command has re-arrested a 28-year-old man who allegedly set an 11-year-old boy ablaze for
allegedly peeping at a woman in a
bathroom at Damweo in the Bolgatanga
Municipality of the Upper East Region.

The suspect, John
Nsobilla, was re-arrested after the media reported about
the deterioration in the health of Ayinbisa Maxwell.

The Municipal Police
Commander, DSP Samuel Punobyin, hinted that the suspect would be put before court
on Monday, February 11 on the charge of causing harm.

Earlier, the Police had
halted the prosecution because the family of the victim reached an agreement
with the family of John Nsobilla to settle the case out of court so that they
would pay the hospital bill of the victim.

This week, the father of
the victim started complaining to some journalists in the Bolgatanga after the
family of the suspect stopped taking care of the victim.

According to him, the
latest attitude of the suspect’s family was contrary to the agreement reached
by the two families over the health of the 11-year-old boy.

Meanwhile, one Prosper
Nsobilla, a family member of the suspect, has denied all claims by the boy’s
father, saying the family has been settling the hospital bill.

On 24 November, 2014,
at Damweo, a suburb of Bolgatanga Municipality, the victim and his two friends
were sent by someone to buy petrol with a gallon.

They
bought the petrol and on their way back, according to the boy, his friends
veered off their course while he stood waiting for them to return.

While
waiting, Nsobilla ran towards him and held him, claiming that he (the victim)
was among the boys peeping at the naked woman in a nearby bathroom.

The
victim said the Nsobilla collected the gallon of petrol from him, poured it
over his body, set him ablaze and left him to his fate.

It took some eyewitnesses to save the boy. Nsobilla was forced to take the boy to hospital for treatment which he did.

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